"Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi), (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell), paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper.
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"Violent, quirky, and darkly funny, Fargo delivers an original crime story and a wonderful performance by McDormand."
ROTTEN TOMATOES
“Its brilliance [lies] in making the forces of law and
order look as interesting and funny as the bad guys.” Guardian
“[Frances] McDormand is excellent and has a lot of fun
with her tenacious and competent character, who is dedicated to duty and her
sweet, supportive husband.” Hollywood Reporter
“The fans of their best work -- "Blood Simple,
"Raising Arizona," "Barton Fink" -- now can add Fargo to
the list, pushing the Coens to the first rank of contemporary American
filmmakers.” Gene Siskel
“Rotates its story through satire, comedy, suspense and
violence, until it emerges as one of the best films I've ever seen.” Roger
Ebert
“Fargo is a concert performance--an illuminating amalgam
of emotion and thought. It glimpses into the heart of man and unearths a
blackly comic nature, hellishly mercurial and selfish, yet strangely innocent.
If it weren't so funny, it would be unbearably disturbing.” Dallas Observer
"In the darkly humorous Fargo, iconoclastic
filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen manage the precarious balancing act of
respecting genre conventions and simultaneously pushing them to an almost
surrealistic extreme. Very funny stuff." Variety
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